5.__Exception to permit requirement.__Notwithstanding subsection 1:

A.__A person may fish for alewives by use of a dip net or single hook and line for consumption by that person or members of that person's family, provided that the person takes or possesses no more than one bushel in any day and provided also that the alewives are not taken from any waters in which a municipality or other person has been granted exclusive rights under section 6131;

B.__A person licensed or otherwise entitled to fish in Maine waters may take suckers for that person's use in all rivers, brooks and streams that are open to fishing between April 1st and June 30th of each calendar year by the use of a hand spear, bow and arrow or by snagging.__If suckers are taken by bow and arrow, the arrow must have a barbed or prong point and must be attached to the bow with a line;

C.__A person may fish for or possess alewives from inland waters if that person has been granted fishing rights under section 6131; and

D.__A person may take suckers for use as bait for fishing in inland waters as provided in section 12551 without a permit under subsection 2.

6.__Eels and elvers prohibitions.__The following prohibitions apply to the harvesting of eels and elvers in inland waters.

A.__A person may not fish for or take elvers from inland waters.

B.__A person other than the owner of a weir used to fish for or take eels in inland waters may not tend that weir while the weir is immersed unless that person has in the person's possession written permission from the owner to tend the weir or is in the presence of the owner and has the owner's permission to tend the weir.

§12507. License to cultivate or sell commercially grown and

imported fish

1.__License required.__Except as otherwise authorized pursuant to this Part, a person may not cultivate or sell fish that have been commercially grown within the State or imported from outside the State without a valid license issued under this section.

Each day a person violates this subsection, that person commits a Class E crime for which a minimum fine of $50 and an amount equal to twice the applicable license fee must be imposed.

2.__Issuance. The commissioner may issue a license to cultivate and sell fish that have been either commercially grown within the State or imported from without the State.

3.__Application.__This section does not apply to and the commissioner may not issue permits governing any aspect of either the commercial aquaculture of Atlantic salmon when intended for use in commercial aquaculture in coastal waters or the Atlantic salmon restoration program.

4.__Fee. The fee for a license to sell commercially grown or imported fish is $25 annually.

5.__Restrictions. The following provisions must be observed.

A.__A license issued pursuant to subsection 2 must be kept constantly and publicly posted in the office or place of business of the licensee.

B.__Whenever a person sells fish in more than one wholesale or retail outlet, each outlet must be licensed.

C.__All fish sold under this section must be identified with the name and address of the source of the fish in a manner approved by the commissioner. A person may not offer for sale any commercially grown or imported fish that is not so identified.

D.__A licensee shall keep invoices of fish sold and purchased under this section so that the invoices are available at all times for inspection by the commissioner or the commissioner's duly authorized agent.

6.__Penalty.__Each day a person violates any restriction of a license issued under this section that person commits a civil